<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[after being married to Bill for more than 50 years, I don't really know where to start. I miss him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33032]]></link><description><![CDATA[after being married to Bill for more than 50 years, I don't really know where to start. I miss him all the time...I was not with him that night, because I felt like I was coming down with the flu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27877]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow. The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early. When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles, for their mistress, no longer hearing the hour from the cock, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there;  And 'twill be found, upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there;  And 'twill be found, upon examination,   The latter has the largest congregation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a job's worth doing, it's too hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18730]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your great umbrage would care to meet my high dudgeon at 12 paces, I would be happy to entertain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your great umbrage would care to meet my high dudgeon at 12 paces, I would be happy to entertain you at dawn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know how men in exile feed on dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know how men in exile feed on dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get many bites, but you can get some big bass, especially when the pattern first develops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40401]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get many bites, but you can get some big bass, especially when the pattern first develops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil  Of dropping buckets into empty wells, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil  Of dropping buckets into empty wells,   And growing old in drawing nothing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26421]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's a skirmish of wit between them. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55416]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's a skirmish of wit between them. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22653]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner: Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner: Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47901]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has never been a single homicide in history that has been investigated to this extent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36639]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has never been a single homicide in history that has been investigated to this extent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the way, The works of women are symbolical.  We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62077]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the way, The works of women are symbolical.  We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight,   Producing what? A pair of slippers, sir,    To put on when you're weary--or a stool     To tumble over and vex you . . . curse that stool!      Or else at best, a cushion where you lean       And sleep, and dream of something we are not,        But would be for your sake. Alas, alas!         This hurts most, this . . . that, after all, we are paid          The worth of our work, perhaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I accept reality and dare not question it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I accept reality and dare not question it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took a big step between Monroe and Lake. That has to continue to be competitive in our league, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33621]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took a big step between Monroe and Lake. That has to continue to be competitive in our league, because everyone in our league is a challenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sovereignty is not given, it is taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Potential customers have more faith and confidence in the financial health of IBM. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Potential customers have more faith and confidence in the financial health of IBM.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do as we say, and not as we do. [Lat., Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do as we say, and not as we do. [Lat., Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce que nous faisons.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5097]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But now, after that ye have known God, or rather or known of God, how turn ye again to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5631]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now, after that ye have known God, or rather or known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63246]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My favoured temple is in an humble heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19029]]></link><description><![CDATA[My favoured temple is in an humble heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. [Fr., Je l'ai toujours dit et senti, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. [Fr., Je l'ai toujours dit et senti, la veritable jouissance ne se decrit point.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only knew the pleasures which surround you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only knew the pleasures which surround you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53740]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This I ever held worse that all certitude,  To know not what the worst ahead might be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60021]]></link><description><![CDATA[This I ever held worse that all certitude,  To know not what the worst ahead might be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't trade him for any other player in Tucson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40607]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't trade him for any other player in Tucson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12152]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest (growth) at our hotels came from business travelers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest (growth) at our hotels came from business travelers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if you can be merry then, I'll say A man may weep upon his wedding day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27416]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if you can be merry then, I'll say A man may weep upon his wedding day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the very essence of despotism that it can never afford to fail. This is what distinguishes it most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47443]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the very essence of despotism that it can never afford to fail. This is what distinguishes it most vitally from democracy. In a despotism there is no organized opposition which can take over the power when the Administration in office has failed. All the eggs are in one basket. Everything is staked on one coterie of men. When the going is good, they move more quickly and efficiently than democracies, where the opposition has to be persuaded and conciliated. But when they lose, there are no reserves. There are no substitutes on the bench ready to go out on the field and carry the ball. That is why democracies with the habit of party government have outlived all other forms of government in the modern world. They have, as it were, at least two governments always at hand, and when one fails they have the other. They have diversified the risks of mortality, corruption, and stupidity which pervade all human affairs. They have remembered that the most beautifully impressive machine cannot run for very long unless there is available a complete supply of spare parts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the quarter's financials are important, the stock performance keys off the PeopleSoft decision. A resolution will be positive one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35286]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the quarter's financials are important, the stock performance keys off the PeopleSoft decision. A resolution will be positive one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43388</guid></item></channel></rss>